Sensory

No-Senses Experiences, Figment Festival, Oakland, CA / 2015

Interactive Installation

Variable

The “No-Senses Experiences” installation invited the public to delve into the five senses through specially designed “portals” during a loud and crowded art event. The pieces provided sensory catalysts to help people answer the question, “How do we experience sensations when we are subjected to, or stripped of, various stimuli?”

Intervention

On Another Scale, Art in Odd Places, New York, NY / 2012

Interactive Performance

On a Different Scale was a public space intervention that invited passers-by to engage in a spontaneous game as I drew a meandering walkway along one of the busiest streets in New York City.

Places

Who Lives on Hunnu Street? Ulan-Ude, Russia / 2016-Ongoing

Collaboration

Public art programming which will activate the historical site located in Ulan-Ude, a city in Eastern Siberia, Russia. The vast landscape stretched by the Selenga River used to be a former settlement of Hun or Hunnu people who lived there in the 1st century AD. Several local and outside artists will invite general public to explore physical qualities and metaphorical meanings of this powerful place through participatory art activities.

Urban

Lost [Found] Landscapes, Various Locations, New York, NY, 2018-Ongoing

Variable

A multimedia series, Lost [Found] Landscapes, documents fragments of urban landscapes through digital drawings, mixed media reliefs, and sculpture. Playing on the contrast between synthetic and organic, these abstractions are my reflections on the urban environment, including the dualities of planned and spontaneous, built and grown, hard and soft, bleak and colorful.

Participatory

Vacant lot was transformed into a play space through a series of work parties. It featured a labyrinth, wildflowers patches, green mounds and adobe huts built by the community members of different ages.

Living

Pretty/Ugly, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY / 2018

Site-Specific Installation

Soil, plants, fungi, worms, found objects

The “Pretty/Ugly” installation represented a section of landfill where domestic objects were taken over by weeds, fungi, and worms. The intention was to highlight species either stigmatized or perceived as non-aesthetic despite their essential roles in our ecosystem. It supported an educational public talk on fungi functions.

Investigations

Mapping a School Yard, Los Angeles, CA / 2013

Conducted a series of mapping exercises with the elementary school students.

Community

Loose Parts: Project for Creative Play and Re-Use, Proposal for LOT, Long Beach, CA / 2014

Proposal

In collaboration with Frances Kao, offered to create a temporary play station featuring salvaged and surplus materials.

Collaborative

Sensory Garden, Pilgrim School, Los Angeles, CA / 2012

Garden

Earth, rocks, plants

Portion of the school yard was redesigned as a sensory garden in collaboration with the elementary school students.

Social

Non-Conflict Kitchen, Open Source Gallery, New York, NY / 2017

Happening

Variable

Two versions of borsht, Russian and Ukrainian, were cooked and served at a Brooklyn gallery pop-up event. I discovered that the ingredients were native to various international locations, highlighting that both recipes were the result of diversity, not cultural or geographic homogeneity. Placemats with the information to this effect were provided to participants.

Installation

Softscape vs. Hardscape, Art in Odd Places, Los Angeles, CA / 2012

Site-Specific Installation

Burlap, straw bales

Softscape vs. Hardscape was an installation featuring textile-based sculptural objects placed on a paved square in front of public building during a busy event. The objective of the project was to compare and contrast the preferred usage of soft surfaces and hard surfaces.